This special exhibition invites you to examine the relationship between Salvador Dalí and the father of conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp. The first exhibit dedicated to their friendship and its influence on the work of both artists, Dalí/Duchamp explores the common ground, both personal and aesthetic, shared by these two modern icons.

From 30th January to 5th March the CEC of the Sorbonne in Paris is presenting the exhibition “Neither Time nor Geography. Dialogues with the Poems of Felícia Fuster”, which presents a dialogue between the poems of the author and those of five young artists: Quim Cantalozella, Jordi Morell, Marta Negre, Òscar Padilla and Jimena del Solar.

On May 28 1606 in Via di Pallacorda, Michelangelo Merisi—better known as Caravaggio—injured Ranuccio Tomassoni in the leg, severing his femoral vein. Their argument broke out during a game of Pallacorda, a precursor of the game of tennis which was played in the street which today bears the same name. Half an hour later, Ranuccio bled to death in the nearby Via della Scrofa. The game was most probably a pretext for a duel, something that was prohibited in Papal Rome and punishable by ...

Presented as part of Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, The Gaze in the Other: Connections and Confrontations (La Mirada en el Otro: Conexiones / Confrontaciones) is a collective exhibition that brings together for the first time a wide variety of artists who have been awarded the Spanish National Prize for Photography, established by the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 1994.

Josep Ferrando, one of the best known Catalan architects abroad at this time, has been invited to show his work at Palazzo Bembo in Venice in the framework of the collective exhibition “Time Space Existence” and as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale which will open on 7 June.

This Thursday, 10 April, the Virreina Centre de la Imatge (La Rambla, 99 1st floor) will be the venue for the inauguration of the exhibition 25%. Catalonia at Venice, which represented Catalan art at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.

The work of Francesc Català-Roca (Valls 1922-Barcelona 1998) is the cornerstone of documentary photography in Spain: he gave photo reportage a new syntax and his snapshots are a wonderful portrayal of Spain in the 20th century. This retrospective exhibition brings together 150 pictures and includes the work by which he is best known.

The Flores & Prats architecture studio is to present a show that takes a good look at the social dimension of collective housing at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats have been associated with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen since 2003, and last year they put on an exhibition in the Danish capital that they combined with a workshop for the students of the school. This year they are presenting Meeting at the Building, an exhibition that combines ...

Tonight Somerset House celebrated the opening of its summer exhibition, elBulli: Ferran Adrià and The Art of Food; a major retrospective on a global icon of gastronomy, Ferran Adrià, and the restaurant he built to become the world's best, elBulli.

This Wednesday afternoon Catalonia presented 25%, a new work exhibition from visual artist Francesc Torres and filmmaker Mercedes Álvarez curated by Jordi Balló, at the 55th International Art Exhbition - La Biennale di Venezia, considered one of the mosts important art events in the world to be held from 1 June to 24 November. Organized by the Institut Ramon Llull (IRL), the project's curatorial proposal departs from a reflection on the role of art in the situation of systemic ...

This Wednesday saw the opening of a retrospective exhibition by the Catalan artist Albert Serra at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, with the prestigious centre giving the artist carte blanche to carry out various activities. Among the events programmed is a round table discussion on 27th April on the aesthetics of bullfighting that will also feature the participation of Miquel Barceló.

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is to give filmmaker Albert Serra a free hand, dedicating an exhibition to him from 17th April to 12th May in which his filmography will be screened in its entirety. This show is the result of the agreement signed between the Institut Ramon Llull and the Centre Pompidou, which envisages a series of activities based around the exhibition.

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